Comments for booktwo.org http://booktwo.org The future of Literature Fri, 16 Mar 2012 16:06:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Comment on #sxaesthetic by Postmodernism, Authenticity, the Internet and the New Aesthetic http://booktwo.org/notebook/sxaesthetic/comment-page-1/#comment-67871 Postmodernism, Authenticity, the Internet and the New Aesthetic Fri, 16 Mar 2012 16:06:55 +0000 http://booktwo.org/?p=2385#comment-67871 [...] most interested me (as with many people) was the New Aesthetic, hosted by James Bridle. You can read his write-up, and then thoughts on their own blogs from Joanne McNeil, Ben Terrett, Aaron Straup Cope, [...] [...] most interested me (as with many people) was the New Aesthetic, hosted by James Bridle. You can read his write-up, and then thoughts on their own blogs from Joanne McNeil, Ben Terrett, Aaron Straup Cope, [...]

]]> Comment on Swotter by The Only Twitter Applications List You’ll Ever Need « My Web Dumpster http://booktwo.org/swotter/comment-page-1/#comment-67867 The Only Twitter Applications List You’ll Ever Need « My Web Dumpster Mon, 27 Feb 2012 08:40:59 +0000 http://www.booktwo.org/swotter/#comment-67867 [...] Swotter [...] [...] Swotter [...]

]]> Comment on James Bridle by .log : things are getting out of hand http://booktwo.org/james-bridle/comment-page-1/#comment-67865 .log : things are getting out of hand Sat, 18 Feb 2012 03:38:11 +0000 http://booktwo.org/?page_id=1377#comment-67865 [...] [1] — Джеймс Бридл, автор, так же верно подмечает отличное, говоря об [...] [...] [1] — Джеймс Бридл, автор, так же верно подмечает отличное, говоря об [...]

]]> Comment on A Ship Adrift by Infovore » Links for February 8th through February 9th http://booktwo.org/notebook/a-ship-adrift/comment-page-1/#comment-67864 Infovore » Links for February 8th through February 9th Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:00:52 +0000 http://booktwo.org/?p=2350#comment-67864 [...] "I wanted to make the ship move, and I wanted to make it speak, and I wanted to speak back to it, with it, together. To make something." The poetry of creation is important. Also, @shipadrift is lovely, but you already knew that. [...] [...] “I wanted to make the ship move, and I wanted to make it speak, and I wanted to speak back to it, with it, together. To make something.” The poetry of creation is important. Also, @shipadrift is lovely, but you already knew that. [...]

]]> Comment on Seven posts about the future by En kremert hund i blekkskriveren http://booktwo.org/seven-posts-about-the-future/comment-page-1/#comment-67858 En kremert hund i blekkskriveren Tue, 20 Dec 2011 04:00:26 +0000 http://booktwo.org/?page_id=1946#comment-67858 [...] Kevin Kelly: What Technology Wants Russell Davies Riglondon http://shorttermmemoryloss.com/ http://booktwo.org/seven-posts-about-the-future/ [...] [...] Kevin Kelly: What Technology Wants Russell Davies Riglondon http://shorttermmemoryloss.com/ http://booktwo.org/seven-posts-about-the-future/ [...]

]]> Comment on The New Aesthetic: Waving at the Machines by The Groupon Shop « TEST http://booktwo.org/notebook/waving-at-machines/comment-page-1/#comment-67857 The Groupon Shop « TEST Tue, 06 Dec 2011 11:24:32 +0000 http://booktwo.org/?p=2324#comment-67857 [...] feels like James Bridle‘s New Aesthetic pushing through into suburbia, in the most vernacular way imaginable. The future of retail is not [...] [...] feels like James Bridle‘s New Aesthetic pushing through into suburbia, in the most vernacular way imaginable. The future of retail is not [...]

]]> Comment on On Now and Next by Infovore » Links for November 28th through November 29th http://booktwo.org/notebook/now-and-next/comment-page-1/#comment-67856 Infovore » Links for November 28th through November 29th Tue, 29 Nov 2011 13:02:54 +0000 http://booktwo.org/?p=2317#comment-67856 [...] On Now and Next | booktwo.org "Sitting quietly on my kitchen table, it has already changed my radio behaviour: instead of sticking one channel on and leaving it for hours, I surf—but intelligently, discovering things I actually want to hear. Adding pictures to the radio: but just a single, little, useful one." Nice. (tags: stml jamesbridle radio glanceable tablet ) [...] [...] On Now and Next | booktwo.org "Sitting quietly on my kitchen table, it has already changed my radio behaviour: instead of sticking one channel on and leaving it for hours, I surf—but intelligently, discovering things I actually want to hear. Adding pictures to the radio: but just a single, little, useful one." Nice. (tags: stml jamesbridle radio glanceable tablet ) [...]

]]> Comment on Swotter by The Only Twitter Applications List You’ll Ever Need | Social Plus One http://booktwo.org/swotter/comment-page-1/#comment-67855 The Only Twitter Applications List You’ll Ever Need | Social Plus One Sun, 20 Nov 2011 21:58:43 +0000 http://www.booktwo.org/swotter/#comment-67855 [...] Swotter [...] [...] Swotter [...]

]]> Comment on Everything is the same only different by Books in Browsers: Program at Books In Browsers http://booktwo.org/notebook/everything-is-the-same-only-different/comment-page-1/#comment-67851 Books in Browsers: Program at Books In Browsers Wed, 02 Nov 2011 03:02:16 +0000 http://booktwo.org/?p=2302#comment-67851 [...] Afternoon session 1. Books as Data. James Bridle (Booktwo/STML). To the end, Lew. Valla Vakili (Smalldemons). Beyond the Encyclopedia: [...] [...] Afternoon session 1. Books as Data. James Bridle (Booktwo/STML). To the end, Lew. Valla Vakili (Smalldemons). Beyond the Encyclopedia: [...]

]]> Comment on The New Value of Text by Infovore » Links for October 5th http://booktwo.org/notebook/the-new-value-of-text/comment-page-1/#comment-67847 Infovore » Links for October 5th Wed, 05 Oct 2011 17:01:43 +0000 http://booktwo.org/?p=2294#comment-67847 [...] The New Value of Text | booktwo.org "Velocity, depth, breadth. These are the dimensions we can add to books, that are the gifts of a digital age, not gimmicks, glossy presentation and media-catching stunts. The text works. It stands and speaks for itself. It is not what we need to change." Yes, yes, yes, this, a hundred times over. (tags: publishing text writing literature ebooks stml jamesbridle ) [...] [...] The New Value of Text | booktwo.org “Velocity, depth, breadth. These are the dimensions we can add to books, that are the gifts of a digital age, not gimmicks, glossy presentation and media-catching stunts. The text works. It stands and speaks for itself. It is not what we need to change.” Yes, yes, yes, this, a hundred times over. (tags: publishing text writing literature ebooks stml jamesbridle ) [...]

]]> Comment on The New Value of Text by Warren Ellis » Social Book Reading http://booktwo.org/notebook/the-new-value-of-text/comment-page-1/#comment-67846 Warren Ellis » Social Book Reading Wed, 05 Oct 2011 13:13:05 +0000 http://booktwo.org/?p=2294#comment-67846 [...] James, have you never read a comments thread in your life? I’m sure you didn’t mean this to sound like the entitlement of the fan reader to tell the author exactly what the reader thinks of them, and to have the author respond on bended knee. [...] <strong>Response from me to Warren's point:</strong> No, I really don't mean "two-way conversation between reader and writer" in the sense of access to the author. I don't mean it literally, although I accept the criticism. I'm not really happy with my own description of the writer above in any case, but what I'm pointing to, however ineptly, is the depth of the text. I'm more and more convinced of the primacy of the author in any case, and have no desire to decentre them, or force them to caper, scrape or change. [...] James, have you never read a comments thread in your life? I’m sure you didn’t mean this to sound like the entitlement of the fan reader to tell the author exactly what the reader thinks of them, and to have the author respond on bended knee. [...]

Response from me to Warren’s point: No, I really don’t mean “two-way conversation between reader and writer” in the sense of access to the author. I don’t mean it literally, although I accept the criticism. I’m not really happy with my own description of the writer above in any case, but what I’m pointing to, however ineptly, is the depth of the text. I’m more and more convinced of the primacy of the author in any case, and have no desire to decentre them, or force them to caper, scrape or change.

]]> Comment on Rorschmap by תעלול גוגל ארץ: להפוך את העולם למשחק קליידוסקופ | חורים ברשת http://booktwo.org/notebook/rorschmap/comment-page-1/#comment-67843 תעלול גוגל ארץ: להפוך את העולם למשחק קליידוסקופ | חורים ברשת Sat, 30 Jul 2011 08:17:43 +0000 http://booktwo.org/?p=2208#comment-67843 [...] של “גוגל ארץ” ליצירות קליידוסקופיות מרהיבות. במילותיו של ברידל: “Rorschmap הוא תגובה הולמת למפות משעממות. אנחנו זקוקים [...] [...] של “גוגל ארץ” ליצירות קליידוסקופיות מרהיבות. במילותיו של ברידל: “Rorschmap הוא תגובה הולמת למפות משעממות. אנחנו זקוקים [...]

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